Spatial Distribution, Air-Water Fugacity Ratios and Source Apportionment of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Lower Great Lakes Basin

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 13787-13797

  Khairy, Mohammed ^a,b   Muir, Derek ^c   Teixeira, Camilla ^c   Lohmann, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; COAL COMBUSTION; DISSOLUTION; FACTORIZATION; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AIR-WATER EXCHANGE; CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERNS; CONTAMINATED SITES; CURRENT CONCENTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CYCLING; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

AROCLOR; COAL; PAINT; PIGMENT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYETHYLENE; WATER; AIR POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; FUGACITY; PCB; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CANADA; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROL STRATEGY; CYCLING; FALLING; GAS; GAS ANALYSIS; LAKE; LAND USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; URBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WOOD; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ONTARIO; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VOLATILIZATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LAKE ONTARIO;

EQUUS ASINUS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AROCLORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREAT LAKES REGION; LAKES; ONTARIO; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEASONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLATILIZATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84948455371     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00186     Document Type: Article

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